[svlug] Great recent Unix software

[Holt Sorenson]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:45:30PM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote:
>(or some long-time Unix users' education).  Some examples mentioned
>at the time were ssh, screen, and rsync, all of which were invented
>or became popular in the mid-1990s.

I'm sure you have some or all of these on your list and that I've
included far too many, but I'm just going to throw these out here for
you to filter.

- tmux, which i have not played with enough is a possible screen replacement
  to look at
- pcregrep
- ascii
- less
- bc
- at
- openssl
- tcpdump
- bzr can work with svn and git, maybe it's worth mentioning?
- socat
- netcat
- some examples of {awk,perl,ruby,python} oneliners and why they're
  useful
- shell
  - iterating
  - brace/tilde/history/parameter expansion
- pax
- dif -urN
- using your favorite package manager to:
  - list files in a package file
  - list files that are in a package and currently installed
  - find what package a file is associated with
  - check to see what files in a package have been modified
- dig, host, dnstrace
- mtr, tcptraceroute, nanog traceroute
- becoming friends with facter, even if you don't use puppet or ruby can be quite useful
- file
- pv
- hping3
- wget, curl, lftp, lynx, elinks/links2
- lsof, strace, ltrace
- {md5,sha*}sum
- a text based mua other than mail{,x} (i prefer mutt) and cli switches that goes with it
- ngrep, nmap
- par2
- parted
- {h,}top
- pstree, killall, pgrep
- pwgen, apg, makepasswd
- when and why you still may want to use rcs, from time to time
- imagemagick and friends (maybe?)
- prename (perl regex rename)
- sudo
- units
- mkhybrid/cdrecord/mkisofs/wodim
- loopback mounting
- xtail
- alternative shells like zsh

- proxying/forwarding with ssh

if they're on the vi path:
- weird things you can do with vim (vim -b foo :%!xxd)
- this ridiculously awesome write up on vim: http://is.gd/BB9n78
- cscope
- vimdiff

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Holt Sorenson
hso at nosneros.net
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